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    "text": "Did you ever see an alligator",
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   {
    "text": "Come up to the air from the mud,",
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   {
    "text": "Staring blindly under the full glare of noon?",
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    "text": "Have you seen the stabled horses at night",
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    "text": "Tremble and start back at the sight of a lantern?",
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    "text": "Have you ever walked in darkness",
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    "text": "When an unknown door was open before you",
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    "text": "And you stood, it seemed, in the light of a thousand candles",
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   {
    "text": "Of delicate wax?",
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   {
    "text": "Have you walked with the wind in your ears",
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   {
    "text": "And the sunlight about you",
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   {
    "text": "And found it suddenly shine with an inner splendor?",
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   {
    "text": "Out of the mud many times,",
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    "text": "Before many doors of light",
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    "text": "Through many fields of splendor,",
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    "text": "Where around your steps a soundless glory scatters",
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   {
    "text": "Like new-fallen snow,",
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    "text": "Will you go through earth, O strong of soul,",
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    "text": "And through unnumbered heavens",
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    "text": "To the final flame!",
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